Ok, the problem is, these features should be integrated into bbPress by default, all forum software has this, and the plugins for quoting for example don’t work like it should, and signature plugins are also outdated and not the best.

It is really up to the developers what they spend time on developing. They do this software in their spare time and for free.

If plugins are readily available, they’re seems little point in integrating them. A variety of plugins also gives user choice, and freedom for others to improve the code.

And you would be very unhappy be the sounds of it if they integrated some of the current plugins into core code.

So I repeat, if you don’t like the current plugins, then come back with a detailed critique of what they don’t do, and what they do wrong. That way the developers can see what could be better, and maybe then they would be fired up to add it into core.

So come back with which plugins and detailed issues and feature requests.